“This location has a collision and fatality rate about three times the provincial average, so that is fundamentally why it is important to get on with this project and make this investment.”

Stone says together the projects will employ hundreds of people.

“These projects are also going to create about 14-hundred direct jobs. There will be jobs created up and down the entire corridor. There will be a huge impact particularly on Golden and Revelstoke I’m sure.”

The Trans Canada sees between $24 and $32-billion dollars of commercial goods transported through these sections every year.